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THE (TORCH 









A Pageant of Light 

From the Early History of Urbana, Ohio 



THE TORCH 



A Pageant of Light 



FROM THE 
EARLY HISTORY OF URBANA, OHIO 



BY 
ALICE ARCHER SEW ALL, JAMES 



"He that (olloweth after me shall have the light of life." 

John-VIII:12 



Presented on The Campus of Urbana University, 

Juno 1922 



Copyright 1922 

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A I 1( E AR< HER SEWALI JAMES 



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HISTORICAL NOTE 



This Pageant is written as an acl of veneration to the signal 
and unique moment in man's political history winch it sets forth. 
There was the temptation, dear to a writer, to pul il into such 
literarj form as to endure, as books endure; but this was put aside 
for the better purpose of placing it in the bands of its natural 
children as a symbolic feast, game or rite. In such a form they 
will 1)0 in tin- position to speak aloud and to acl forth at whate 
time th<\\ are so minded, upon the ver} sod where stood the br 

and forlorn originals, their words and <l Is to justify them. Their 

verj moving in the sunshine of gala days through thes - of 

dogged lonely faith will ho thus in itself a deed of gratitui 

The momenl was signal and unique because it mighl so easily 
have been less. A few men, powerful in themselves, conquerors 

■\ known obstacle to mankind, seeking, above all thii 
liberty and self-government, ohosc to abide by a distant ideal which 
bound them to others. And this choice w;is nol by debate, con- 
sultation ami decision; ii was by instinct. May it nol justly seem 
that a torch went before t hem 

Remembering those things during the play of the Episode 
Wilderness and the Revolution, thai speech by the unnamed offi- 
cer al Fori Gower (see Randall and Ryan's History of Ohio, Vol. 
II. Rise and Progress of an American State, p. 129 . (reprodu 
in the Pageant nearly word for word), which was delivered to the 
amazed and gory soldiers on the very day after the terrible Indian 
battle of Poinl Pleasant, should have a peculiar thrill in the speak- 
ing of it. Their enemies had been not only those which a wilder- 
ness provides, hut were also the protected wards of their own king, 

and the assassins he had hired against them. Th casion of the 

sp :h and the dramatic resolutions thai followed upon it 

the scanty backwoods gossip, that morning arrived, concerning 
the action of the Continental Con Philadelphia on Sept. 

!77l . two months before, in which it declared its firsl rights 
and its intention of standing by them. 

The moment is therefore full six months before the firsl shot 
of Lexington and Concord, and this signing by them of a groping 
Declaration of Independence, affixing themselves to a vision veil- 
ed by the very oak-branches that shade their children's Pageant, 
should move the '-ore of any Ohioan's heart. no 

more; ii was a stockade al the juncture of the Hocking \\'\ 

mio.) 

It will be plain therefore, why T have omitted the great Revo- 
lutionary figur if Washington, Lafayette and others. What I 
have wanted to do was to select and save thai peculiar isolation, 
the far off wilderness obscurity in which our own 

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forming their remarkable proceduri There is aothing quite 

like it in history, and the glintings that they followed arc there- 
fore especially poignant. St. Clair refers to these things in the in- 
augural speech I have given him, though of course actually he could 
have had only a scanl appreciation of them. It was to place these 
aspects together as a unit that 1 put them into his mouth, rather 
than reproduce entire his own address, which, while ooble in itself, 
could not have the advantage of our poinl of distance. In it he 
also makes that arresting statement, that Ohio was the iirst state 
in the world formed upon republican principles (being eul out of 
the wilderness after the Revolution). The statement is, of course. 
not original with him. nor with me see The Rise and Progress of 
an American State, Vol. II. p. 597 . bul I believe the players of it 
will have the firsl declamation of it. at leasl in drama. The spoken 
word on such a theme should certainly thrill the speaker. I must 
add thai the final grand prophecy of St. Clair about the kingdom 
of the Lord and the kingdoms of this world, is his own. 

For the Episode of Missions I am indebted chiefly to the Rev. 
James Finley's account of the Wyandotl Mission, published at Cin- 
cinnati in 1840, and inscribed ''The people thai walked in darkness 
have seen a great light.'* It is significant that the firsl to pierce 
the wilderness was the Church, in one form or .'mother. 

The Pioneer Episode deals with some great native figures, the 
Indi;m Chiefs Tarhee, Cornstalk and Tecumseh; and with Simon 

Kenton in his youth the j uliar hero of Urbana. Simon Kenton 

entered the Northwest Wilderness at the age of nineteen, perform 
ing almost ,it the outsel (for his friend Daniel Boone the dashing 
and heroic rescue with which he enters the Pageant. Over six feet 
in height, with a stoutness of heart and limb, strength and alert 
ness of mind and body, powers of endurance and a Fearlessness 
quite beyond compare, he is a magnificent, naturally endowed he- 
ro He had, in addition to these superb qualities, a simple guile- 
Lessness, .nid a heart si, honest that his own advantage was con- 
tinually lost iii the cause of others. It was difficull to select inci- 
dents to he played from his long life. ;is it was merely ;> succession 
of extremity, till he paused near its close and joined the Methodist 

Church. While he was the constant foe of the Indian, he was no 
l.-ss his constant friend, and it has been my endeavor to show iii 

this unlettered man the perspicacity of his natural .justice as well 
as the deeper religious influences, which softened the end of a 
hard lit''. He lies buried :it ;i lovely spot in the Cemetery of (Jr 
bana, with the Indian ami the wild he;ists carved around his 

tombstone, guarding the memory of n mail who conquered and 
pected them both. The monument and its carvings arc h\ J 

Ward, a grandson of thai Ward with whom he sits, in his 
oh] ;r_rc, m td- Scene of the Circuit Court For his history I am 

indebted to "The Life of General Simon Kenton," by John Mc 
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For studies of Tar] , Cornstalk and Tecumseh, I am indebt- 
ed to Benjamin Drake's "Life of Tecumseh," published in Cincin- 
nati, 1841, also the Ohio Archeological and Historical Society's 
Records. These men were, withoul doubt, the greatesl of their 
race and were native and familiar to the region of the Mad River. 
Tecumseh was born a few miles south of Springfield "on the north- 
west side of the Mad River," probably in the y>-nv 1768. It was 
on the banks of Deer Creek (Hopkesepe Run or the modern Dugan 
of Urbana . thai they found him when they came to make him 
chief. (Life of Tecumseh, p. s ". 83. Each one of these men was 
a model of physical and spiritual courage, endowed with the no- 
blesl gifts of oratory and self-effacemenl in the tragic cause of their 

r; The words used by them in this scene were actually their 

own. ai differenl periods of their relations with us, bul in the same 
connection. It is only fair to state thai the spirited indignation 
■ f Tecumseh againsl his fellow chiefs for giving up their land to 
any "who should wear a hat," really belongs to Blue Jacket, at 
Greenville, a1 the making of thai greal Treaty. Tecumseh refused 
to attend the Greenville council, and, as he said, "took qo treat- 
His whole nature was sensitive, passionate and regal, and 
these words are in his spirit. His cry of grief at the continued 
barbarity of his race is genuine, on just such another occasion. He 
died fighting back the white man, as he thought, in the Battle of 
the Thames, 1813, as an officer of the English army, relying with 
forlorn hop.' upon English promises of dominion to his race. But 
iomi comforl to know thai at the last he tore off and flung 
away tin- English uniform and ran to the fronl in his native fringe 
and feathers alone. A Pottawattamie Chief reported "thai when 
Tecumseh fell, they all ran." 

These three men deserve an epitaph as statesmen years ahead 

of thru- times. Had tin insel of Tarhee and Cornstalk see Life 

of Tecumseh, p. 15, IT. also Ohio Arch. His. Soc. Pub. v.. I. XIV, 
p. 133), been followed and kepi in faith by whites and Indian alike, 
there mighl have been a differenl close to their sad chapter. If 
may Beem that Tecumseh should nol be reckoned among them as .i 
leader towards the light, his whole struggle being away from the 
white man. Bui there is no patriot in history who had a higher 
conception of what might be done in the development of his 
lows lli^ rebuke to an English officer, "I conquer to save, and 
you to murder,*' is one of his many witnesses. Life of Tecumseh, 
p 182. All he desired was to keep the land forever the common 
possession of man. hold m trust from God and indivisible, [bid, 
p 23] . and to so, Mir-' to his race the freedom to develop upon 
their own lines. And who can say he was wrong! 

In the sketch of Johnny Appleseed, I have attempted I • 
tray the most universal of his charming traits See Ogden's His- 
tory of Champaign County. His giving the ribbon to the little 
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little Lrirls. It is a pity I could oot also show his beautiful even- 
ings in the cabin homes when he conducted family prayers from 
the Book of Worship and prayed "for all sorts and conditions of 
men." He was iindoubtedl} supplied with New Church books 
from Philadelphia, which he used as a veritable John the Baptist, 
crying in the wilderness. 

The soldiers of Hull's Army actually camped beneath the tr 
thai shade the scene of the Pageant. They became ''the ragged 
Regiment," during their long winter's waiting there for the order 
to march to the lakes. 

The Circuil Courl travelled on horseback from cabin to cabin 
before the Stage-coach broke its way through the forest. The 
incidents of the scene arc gathered from Mr. Ogden's History of 
Champaign County, and from notes by John II. .lames on the same. 

The political meeting and the dinner, in the scene of the Har- 
rison and Tyler Campaign, were held in Ward's woods, adjoining 
the campus. This also is described by Mr. Ogden, and the appear- 
ance there of the banner bearing the Legend "The People is Oil 

Korre.-t." from which has descended to us those useful and famous 
initials. The ballad at the close of the scene is the genuine work 
of an unknown hut spirited hard of an adjoining county, written for 

thai campaign. (See Ogden's History of Champaign County.) 

The founding of the Urbana University is treated as a culmi- 
nation of the entire scene, nut only because the unique character 

of this institution, the only one of its kind in the world, is indeed a 
culmination of brave and spiritual intellect ualism. hut because the 

founding of any University is by nature the other end of the scale 
he>_Miu in barbarism. 

In the ('nil War scene the resolutions and letter read by 
[chabod Corwin were those drawn up by the citizens of Urbana 

on that asion. Here, as elsewhere all through the Pageant, 1 

have kept sacredly ami used as frequently as possible the words 

and ejaculations of the ureal and i lesl originals. The\ are indi- 
cated in the texl by asterisks. These, together with the general 
atmosphere of the period, have been gathered from many sources 
besides those already mentioned; such as the St. ('lair Papers, by 
Win Henry Smith. Historical Collection of Ohio, bj Henry Howe, 
Burnet's Notes on the North West Territory, Caleb A.twater's H - 
torj of the state of Ohio, and from conversation with those who 
remember. Maj these things be an assistance in passing them 
still farther on from generation to generation. 

I must also say that my reason for bringing in Simon Kenton 

again at the close of the play, in a symbolic part, is because he 

is. of ;ill others, distinctly our own. a rugged monument of a man 

whose name is still seen on our mt\ records ; who stands for every- 
thing of the wilderness and also for the integrity with which it 
was conquered A. .V 8. J. 

Urbana, Ohio, dune 1922. 



the torch 

A Pageant of Light. 



S< ENE THE GREEN SWARD UNDER PRIMEVAL OAKS. LIFTING 
BY A SLIGHT RAISE TO A PAVED TERRACE IX FRONT OF TWO COL- 
LEGE BUILDINGS (BAILEY HALL TO THE LEFT OF THE AUDIENCE, 
LAY HALL TO THE RIGHT) WHICH AUK CONNECTED BY A 
COLONNADE OK THREE ARCHES THE ARCHES ARE APPROACHED 
BY THREE STEPS THE COLOR OF THE BUILDINGS AND OF THE 
COLONNADE IS OK A PALE GREY PLASTER 1111. ARCHES ARE 
HEAVILY CURTAINED ACROSS THE FRONT BEHIND THE COL- 
I'MN'S. THE CURTAINS ARE A LIGHT BLUE. WOODS TO THE RIGHT 
AND LEFT AND BACK. THE RAILROAD AT EXTREME RIGHT; THE 
GATE AND LANE AT EXTREME LEFT. A PAVED WALK COMING 
DOWN FROM THE TERRACE LEADS DIRECTLY FRONT, DP INTO 
THE TOWN. 



INTRODUCTION 



In the extreme distance, behind the audience, is heard the choir sing- 
ing: 

How firm a foundation, ye Baints of the Lord, 
It Laid for your faith in his excellenl word. 
Wh.it more can He saj than to you He hath said, 
To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled? 

In every condition— in sickness, in health; 

In poverty's vale, or abounding in wealth; 

At home and abroad; on the Land, on the se 

"As thy days may demand, shall thy strength ever be. 

"Fear not, 1 am with thee, be aol dismayed, 

For I am thy <;<><! and will still give thee aid; 

I'll strengthe nthee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, 

Upheld '>> my righteous, omnipotenl hand. 

"When through the deep waters I call thee to g 

The rivers of woe shall not tli verflow; 

For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, 
Ami sanctify to thee thy deepest distress 

"When through Bery trials thj pathway shall Lie, 
.My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply, 
The flame shall no1 hurl thee; 1 only design 
Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine. 

"E'en down to old age all m\ people shall prove 
My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable Love; 
And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn, 
Like Lambs they shall still in my bosom be borne 

"The soul that nil Jesus still Leans for repose, 
I will not, l will nut deserl to EDs foes . 
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, 
I'll never, no never, no never forsake!" 

They approach while Binglng tins, passing through the audience, up 
on to the terrace, and In ai the large door of Bailej Hall. Their singing 
is partly lost aa thej ascend the stairs within, and Anally is closed while 
the; are still an een 

The Chanter, a symbolic figure, who has i>".-n seated on the ground, 
front, his back to the audience during this, rises and goes 'u> on to the 
pavement and stands In i little rostrum against the wall. 

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The Chanter 

i; ii of the sky, upon the green June shining, 

1 do perceive thou are nol an) more 

The theme of illustration. Through the years 

Of man's adventure, look, a Torch has lt < » r i « • . 

Small in ili\ daylight, bul imperative 

A candle carried through a harvest field! 

The dust, the glare of might) occupations 

Have blazed it out, like fire snuffing fire; 

And \ el n t raveled onward, t<> be seen 

At moments rarel) when our groping cries 

Called for an inward leading. Then the mind 

Beheld a lighl within its circumstance 

And wheeled upon its spiritual orbit 

A full sniil's daytime nearer to its spring. 

Torch, 1 have seen thee. Torch, appear again, 

Ami play the pageanl of illumination. 

There Is a silence Enter from each end oi college buildings two sym- 
bolic heralds holding long trumpets which they blow. Their fanfare closes 
on opening chord <>f the following hymn Enter during the fanfare the 

choir from Bailey Hall to the top of th< lonnade. The heralds disappear. 

The choir sings: 

Lead, kindly Light! amid the encircling gloom, 

Lead Thou me on ; 
The night is dark, ami I am tar from home, 

Lead Thou me on; 
Keep Thou my feel ; I do not ask to see 

The distant scene; one step enough for me. 

Between the curtains of the central arch the Torch appears carry- 
ing a lighted torch high. He stand: against th< background till the sec- 
ond "Lead Thou me on." when he descends the steps and turns to the 
right on terrace. At end of the terrace he disappears. The choir remains 
jl the sattK position throughout tin pageant 



KIMSODK ONK-THE MISSION'S 



EPISODE I. 

THE MISSION'S 



A flight of Indians rush silently across the terrace and are gone. The 
last of them travel more slowly, riding on horse-back dragging their fam- 
ilies on pole litters behind them. One of these groups alights, builds a 
fire, the man working on an arrowhead as he sits beside it and teaching 
his little boy to use the bow, They are driven off. Others arrive; before 
these have gone another flight of Indians overtakes them with bows and 
arrows, and rush away. They leave behind them the families injured, 
some killed, some dying. The Indians who remain express terror and 
dismay. They carry off their dead. 

Enter the Jesuit Missions. They travel slowly across the terrace, 
chanting as they go, with the Crucifix at the head and the paraphernalia 
of the church following. They chant the words: 

"I \\.i it for the Lord, my soul doth wait; 

And in His : Word- do I hope 

.My soul waiteth for the Lord, 

More than watchers Tor the : morning. 

Lei Israel hope in the : Lord. 

For- with the Lord is ; mercy. 

With 1 1 i in : is plenteous re- demption; 

And He shall re- deem Isra- : el. 

Savages creep out of the grass and look at them, then run after thorn. 
They pause at end of terrace, set up an altar and receive and baptize 
the Indians. In the midst of their ceremony, they are assaulted by others. 
The vessels of the office are knocked down, the candles and altar over- 
thrown, the Priests killed. One among them snatches the Cross and holds 
it bigb II'' is shot down. First Catholic Missionary, falling wiih the 
Cross: 

' ' Save t he ( 'ross ; carry it on!" 

Father Hennepin, who is wounded, rises, and seeing the cross fall, 
catches it up. He bends over the first Missionary and says: 

"Resi in peace. I will carry the Cross to the end of the world!" 

Re staggers off with it into the extreme distance. The savages are 
lost in the thickets. 

Enter, walking meekly, the Rev. Jas. Finley. Methodist, carrying a 
lantern in one hand and the Bible In the other. A blanket is folded over 
his shoulder. He comes to a tree, spreads the blanket on the ground, 
hangs the lantern on a branch, reclines, and opens his Bible, in which 
he is immediately absorbed. A huge snake comes from the grass and 
crawls across his knees and lies th.re He continues reading. Indians 
are attracted hy his peculiar occupation and approach him curiously, with 
hatchets lifted to slay him They s pv the snake and stand hack amazed. 
He lifts his head and seeing the savages, and not the snake, he smiles 
and reads aloud a few w orris: 

"Pear qoI them which kill the body, 
hut are qoI aide to kill the soul " 
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As he reads he rises, absent-mindedly, taking up his lantern and hid 
blanket, and with his book still open, continuing to read to the savages 
while he walks away Some remain staring at the snake and fall on their 
knees; the others walking beside him In attitudes of consternation and 
awe with their heads bent while they loofe at him, and their hands lifted. 
The Bnake leaves the grass, the Indians around il follow it in terrified 
dismay. 

Enter a group of Indians dragging between them two squaws, whose 
pleading cries pierce the forest. Their leader, a young chief, Tarhee, 
stands in a melancholy attitude watching the men tie them to a tree and 
pile fagots around them He summons one of the men to him II- 

"I cannol think it is righl to burn witches, or to injure 
;i woman in any way. II' "til> there were some Prince who 
couli I comma m I me 1 1 ifferenl h !" 

The Indian 

There is no Prince higher than a Wyandot. 

As thej speak, enter the Rev. Joseph Badger, Presbyterian. The 
minister is absorbed in the Bible, which is open, as he walks. He looks 
up and sees the situation. He runs forward, and goes to Tarhee and 

"Hear, my brother, whal the Prin >i Peai mmands!" 

Tarhee 

The Prin f Peace ' 

He lifts his hands in amazement. 

Rev. Joseph Badger 

"A new commandmenl I give unto you; thai ye I 

one another." 

Tarhee (throwing up Ins arms 
"lie has come, t he Prince '. ' ' 
Turning to the Indiana 

' ' ( 'nt t he ropes. 

The Indians do so, and then follow the Rev. Mr Badger, reading to 

bief, who walks with him listening meekly. Tiny all ^o off. 
Enter the Rev. John Stewart, a Baptisl missionary. He is walking 
between two Indian-, has the Bible open and is talking to them from it. 

One of the Indian- says: 

"The Greal Spiril has given his red children a relig- 
ion to guide then- feet, and we do nol feel like leaving 

it so soon as you wish US to do." 

The Other, Mononcue s.i 
"The hook you hold can have nothing to do with us. 

The Sou of God Waa horn among the white people, and we 

never heard of Him until the white man brought the Won]. 
If the Greal Spirit had designed us to be governed by this 

hook, he would have sent it to US. 

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The Rev. John Stewart 

"God has ^< -n t this book to you now. He command- 
bis ministers to go and carry and preach tins book to 
every nation on the whole earth. Although it has taken 
this hunk ,-i long time to come, yel it has come, as <jod 
lias directed it ; and it will go on until it has reached all 
the world, and all nations, and colors and languages of 
men ; none can stop it." *** 
They go off, earnestly talking together. 

I. INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 

ABRAM AND THE SWINGING LAMP 
There file from each end of t tie terrace figures symbolic of the prayers 
of Christian martyrs They chanl as thej go, in Gregorian tones: 

"The Salvation of the Righteous is of tin- Lord. 
lie is their strength in tin- time of trouble." 

They mount the pavement before the colonnade, circle around it with 
lifted hands and kneel in supplication, facing the arches. 

The Chanter 

"Blessed arc ye when they shall revile you and perse- 
cute you and shall say all manner of evil against you 
falsely for my sake." 

The Prayers answer in the same manner: 

"The angel of the Lord encampeth around them thai 
fear Him and delivereth them." 

Enter the Torch running after them. He says to them: 

"The Lord will give you light. *' 

He stands between them at the entrance to the arches and lifts a sig- 
nal to the curtains. They part, revealing the pantomime in the three arch- 
es — the Patriarch Abram kneeling at aunset in the whirling smoke of a 
visionary furnace, with hands and head thrown back m ecstatic prayer. 
Before ins eyes passes slowly an ancient swinging lamp, lighted. 

The Chanter (from the rostrum 

"And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down 

and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning 
lamp. - - In the same day the Lord made a covenant with 
Abram, saying: "Unto thy seed have I given this land." 

(Genesis, XV : 17) 

The Torch ascendi the steps of tin- < »tit t;il arch and. lifting his torch. 

touches the passing lamp. He turns to the Prayers, holding his lighted 

lOrch, and tin' curtains fall together behind him across tin- vision. The 
Torch comes down to the Prayers of the Martyn and leads them of] the 
terra, e in attitudes of hope. 



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EPISODE TWO— THE PIONEER 



EPISODE II. 

THE PIONEER 

The Chanter 

New rise and 
To other grazing fields, ye buffalo, 

Lordh and slow. 
For here she comes, of conquerors the best, 
Bringing a home within her kerchiefed breast. 

■ • Flail, bridegroom and t he bride ! 
Throned on his horse behind him, see her ride 
Slowh between the boughs he turns aside; 
Above his shoulder see her brighl eye peers 
Into the unknown and ungracious years. 

lint oh, the heavenly spheres 
With which her small arms circle him, 

1 1 comforts, peace and smiles 

She !'';i\ es along t he a isles 
Of groined oaks and beechen columns dim. 
Like unseen Mowers strewed and unheard bridal hymn." 

Enter the pioneer on horseback with his bride behind him. They 
alight at end of terrace and sel up a home, a swinging crai en ting 

a hearth, a table, four chairs. 

Enter a great covered wagon drawn by oxen. It pauses near the first 
home and it- occupants descend with their household goods. Some talk 
on indistinctlj among them; words fly out: 

" I 'in too st iff to jump down, William. " 

"Hand me the baby, Ebenezer, and help mother." 

The settlers together make a little circle of different household groups, 
in Which baby nursing, .(Miking, and the distaff arc the leading occupations. 
Indians enter suddenly and surround the whole, yelling and Bring ar- 
rows. The men Of the settlers go out and with their guns oppose them 
on all sides. The men fall and are dragged within by the women, who 
i m terror The first bridegroom is held on the ground with his 

hair in an Indian's hand, who, with the other lifted, is preparing to scalp 
him. The fust bride hands the guns of the fallen men to the women, who 
: with their children on their knees and tire at the Indians. 

The Chanter from the rostrum 

True to the white man, True t,. the Indian. 
True in his country, Simon Kenton. 

Knter Sinmn Kenton, on horseback, coonskin cap on his head and 
long pun on his arm H( •• tin. danger, dismounts and dashes to the 
rescue, drives off the Indians, kills the scalper, lifts the wounded man. 
entei Ircle and sits down. *** The women cry out: 

" \ brave man. a brave man, Thank <.'o<l for him." 

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EPISODE TWO THE PIONEER 



The first provides a meal for them out of the swinging pot on the 
crane. Kenton sits, lighting his pipe. The wounded pioneer says to him: 

"Well, Simon, you behaved yourself Like a man today: 
indeed you are a fine fellow. 

Enter at a distance on horseback seven Indian chiefs — Cornstalk, Mo- 
lunkee. Pottawattamie Chief, Pickaway Chief, Mingos Chief, Tarhee and Te- 
cumseh. They linger and dismount, gradually approaching during the 
pioneer's last speech. 

Enter suddenly from behind, a very tall Indian chief, plumed and paint- 
ed — Cornstalk. Behind him are four others, walking. He stands curious. 
The White men rise with their knives to fall upon him. Simon Kenton 
takes his pipe from his mouth, and says: 

"This appears to l>e a fine fellow. Why nol listen to 
him?'' 

One of the Others 

"lie is ;m Indian. " 

Simon Kenton 

" But t Ids one has nol hurl you." 

The Others 

"lie is ,111 Indian. " 

(They move forward toward the Indian.) 

Simon Kenton rising) 
"lie is als<» a man. Ami a guest." 

He steps between the white men and holds his arms out across the 
Indian, and continues: 

Whoever of you attacks him will do it over my dead 
body. 

The white settlers retire, Kenton takes his seat again, and the In- 
dian chief comes in. He says: 

Yhii have treated me with courtesy. 1 am Cornstalk, 
the Chief and the Sachem. I am familiar with the be- 
havior of the Great. It must continue between us. I 

have come to ask that you take no more land from the 
Indian. 

The Settlers 

I la: Ha! 

Cornstalk 

I have here hi} brothers with me. 
Suddenly ihree more great chiefs Btep up beside him. They all glower 
upon the 

••• Words of Daniel Boone to Simon Kenton on being rescued by him. 

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EPISODE TWO— THE PIONEER 



Molunki 
I am Molunki of Mad River. Fou have killed my deer 

(,n iis pastures. 

Another Chief 

1 am Chief of the Pottawattoraies. Machacheek is mine. 
The < rreal Spirit ga-\ e i1 to nay fathers 
Another Chief 
1 am Chief of the Pickaways. 

Another Chief 
I am < Ihief of the Mingos. 

Tarhee 
1 am Tarhee. Listen to me, brothers. Our brother, 
Cornstalk, is a jusl man. The Greal Spirit pul the sun m 
his mouth. He speaks quietly, and I speak quietly, too. 
o I,,,.. There is a jusl and peaceable way in winch 
the white man and the red man can live together. 
Simon Kenton 
up and pulls two chairs forward for them. 

sit down. There is. 
Enter Tecumseh very suddenly. He is taller than any of them. 

Tecumseh 
I am Tecumseh. There is uot. 

Cornstalk i o Tecumseh 
Brother, you arc young and I am old. I have seen 
that the way of peace is better than the way of war. Lei 
us make a treaty with the Fifteen Fires. 

Tecumseh (to Simon Kenton 

I hope you will paj attention to me. It is well known 
by all my brothers presenl thai here the Greal Spirit 
placd my forefathers, a long time ago, and charged him 
not to sell or part with his lands, bul to preserve them for 
Ins posterity. I am much surprised thai my brothers 
differ from me. Their conducl would lead me to suppose 
that the Greal Spirit had nol given them the same charge, 
but, on the contrary, had directed them to sell their lauds 

any who wore a hat as soon as he should ask it ,,t' 
t hem. 

Tarhee 

My brothers, listen t<> me. I now tell you that no one 

in particular can justly claim this ground; it hehuurs in 

common to us all. No earthly being has an exclusive 
righl to it. The Greal Spiril above is the true and only 
owner of this soil; ami he has given us all an equal right 

in it. We must live together like '_ r ,„,d children 

15 



EPISODE TWo THE PIONEER 



Molunki 
I > 1 1 1 who will assure us thai Mad River shall be ours 

|',,iv\ ■•!• .' 

Simon Kenton 
I honestly believe there is oothing to assure you. 

Some of the Indians look at him angrily for this and lift their toma- 
hawks. 

Tecumseh 

(Making them put their tomahawks down.) 

White brother, you ihink 1 mean danger to you. I 
have oever meanl danger to you. I mean m> harm to any 
living soul. There is <>nl\ one thing thai I mean; for it 
I stand, and for it may the Master of Life permil me to 
die: the preservation of my | pie. 

(He pauses.) 

.My brother, Cornstalk, offers to make treaty. I take no 
treaty, else our tribes should become mere feathered fig- 
ures in a pageanl when the Fifteen Fires sit around t" 
remember. 

He suddenly leaves, and lingers at a distance in an attitude of grief. 

Cornstalk 

Withdraw, m\ brothers; withdraw, my brothers. 
They go out suddenly, mounl and gallop off After a little silence in 

which the spinning wheel and distaff are set to work. Simon Kenton rises 
and goes out of the circle which continues its domestic occupations. The 
Indian chiefs have all gone, >avc Tecumseh, at obscure end of terrace, 
absorbed in sorrowful meditation. The Indians in the grass at fronl have 
stolen Kenton's horse during his resting in the home He goes to where 
he left his horse, sees ii is taken, runs after It, recovers it. but is over- 
come by the red men, who tie him to a tree and pile fagots about him. 
While his hands are free, Simon Kenton throws them up to Ilea. 

Simon Kenton 
I had meant to help this country. Now I must die. 

They tie his anus down. They begin to dance and yell around him, 
with tomahawks lifted. 

Tecumseh, from a distance, seeing them, rushes In, tlings the red men 
down, throwing up his hand- to Heaven and exclaiming: 

"<Mi. what will become of my people!" 

The) run off He then looks closel) at Kenton, take-, oul hia knife 
and cuts the ropes. Kenton, released, holds oul his hand to him, but he 

mounts and gallops Off Kenton mounts and gallops Off in the other di- 
rection 



16 



INTERLUDE OF I-ICMT 



II. INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 
MOSES AND THE BURNING BUS! 



Kilter from each end of terrace the Pi of the North- 

Territory. Thej burrj along eagerlj with their hands lifted. 

The Chanter 
••.\,.w do the Prayers of the N'orthwesl Wilderness 

for another lighl than of the Sun. 
Through veils of homesick longing the^ perceive 
V isions remembered. 
Thej kneel before the arches; thej I in their hands and cry out: 

We are t lie souls of lonely 1 liers ; 

We bear and bring forth in the wilderness, 

We iiiirs.' 1 h«' men of .1 new St ,-it .-. 

We left our homes in hope. 

We meel bloodshed with valour. 

We endure poverty wit h |>;it ienee. 

M a ke \ isible and sure to us t he lighl 

\'>\ which we t ravel ! Answer ! 

The Torch appears and says to the Praj 

"Be qoI a fra id. Open t he I Hole. 

He stands before the curtain and bids it part. There is revealed in 
the arches 'in- picture ol Moses, the lonelj shepherd in the wilderness, 
encountering the burning bush. 

The Chanter 
••\ou Moses kepi the flock of Jethro, his father-in- 
law, tin- priesl nf .Midian. ami he led the flock t < » the back 
side "I' tli' 1 desert, and came to the mountain of God, 
even to Horeb. Ami tip' angel of the Lord appeared un- 
to liim in a flame of fire oul of the midst of a bush; and 
In' looked, ami behold, the bush burned with fire, and 
the bush was nut consumed. Ami God called unto him 
out iif thr midst iif the hush, and said, "I have surely 
seen the affliction of my people." Exodus III. !-'_'. 

The Torch reaches up his torch in the burning bush, turns it to the 
rs "f Mothers, and the curtains fall together behind him He leads 
tin- Mothers quicklj off iii attitudes of gladm 



17 



EPISODE THREE— THE WILDERNESS AND THE REVOLUTION 

EPISODE III. 

Illi: WILDERNESS AND THE REVOLUTION 

A fort is rapidly built center fr<mt. Volunteers of the Virginia army 
enter it backwards, tiling before them as they do so at Indians who dis- 
tantly encompass them on all sides. The Indians break ami run. The 
Colonel, supported in death agony, exclaims: 

".My men, we have done a strange thing; we have con- 
quered, as subjects of the King, the Indians, who are 
wards of the Kin-. God knows where this will lead." 

Immediately he falls dead. 

The men of the fort remain, with their fallen leader between them, 
standing in and around the fort in attitudes of suspense and weariness. 

The Choir 
"So long Th\ power hath led me. sure it still 

Will lead me on 
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till 

Tin' night is -one. 

Enter from right woods, a backwoodsman scout, on horseback. Ho 
has game hung across his horse, is smoking a pipe and appears in no 
hurry or distress. With bis rifle he takes a crack or two at squirrels in 
the trees. He ambles slowlj across the fort, and as be passes it be says 
to the nun. casually: 

"There has been lea spilt in Boston." 

Then he ambles off and is gone to the left. The men of the fort look 
at each other and seem to ponder his words. Enter from the same direc- 
tion another backwoodsman, a trapper, also on a nag, in much the same 
manner. He also drops a word to the fort as he pa 

"The Colonies are remembering that they have Eng- 
lish rights. Tin' people of New Hampshire, Massachusetts 
Bay, Rhode Island and Provide] Plantations, Connec- 
ticut, Ni'u Fork, Now Jersey, Pennsylvania, Now Castle, 
K'nt and Susses on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North 
Carolina ami South Carolina 

^ftei aying all these names slowly, he stops. The men of the fort 
call out io him as he puts his horse forward 

•'.More. More; what of !l 

He Calls hack over bis shoulder as he goes off: 

"They all Bay no !" 

He i gone. The men of the fort take each others hand- and 
drop their leads in their Other bauds: otters look up and lift a hand to 

a; ail express bewilderment, confusion ami darkness of mind After 

;. minute thej step out and look around. They all say at different times; 

18 



KIMSODK TIIKKK THE WILDERNESS A.\h THE REVOLUTION 



"We ni'ist i|u something for the Colonies." 

Somo of them beckon to a few of tl who are now seen 

rominp; from end <>f terrace The settlers gather around, a few at a 
tim*. from all parts. Among them are a few women with aprons over 
their heads, distaffs or kettles In their hand A few young boys and 
girls come together, in pairs, holdin tl talking. 

One hears the words: 

" Whal is il .' " "Tea spill in Boston. " 
And the various names of the colonies lly about: 

"Maryland, Pennsylvania, Now York." 
And the words: 

"They all say no!" 

Quite a company, though not ther about the fort Aft 

minute or two an officer jui i n top of the pi ak of the fort and ad- 

dresses them in these words: 

"Gentlemen Having now concluded the campaign 
the assistance of Providence, with honor and advantaj 
tu the colony and ourselves, it only remains thai we should 

sure our country of whal we have done. We have lived 
aboul three months in the woods withoul any intelligence 
from Boston, or from the delegates at Philadelphia. It 
is possible thai our countrymen may fear our use of arms 
at this critical juncture. That we are a respectable body 
is certain, when it is considered thai we can live weeks 
without bread or salt; thai we can sleep in the open air 
without au> covering bul thai of the canopy of Heaven; 
and thai our men can march and shoot with any in tlm 
known world. 

(Cheers from the settlers.) 

Blessed with these talents, lei us solemnly engage to 
one another to support our countrj as we understand it. 
It behooves us, thou, thai we should draw up resolves and 
Bign them. 

Benjamin Ashly, will you acl as clerk and pin up a 
paper hero on the p" s i where all may read, and tho 
who feel inclined may sign their names 

Ashly 

I will. sir. 

Ashly then pins ;> large Bheel of ir parchment) to the 

of the fort. Tho officer then jumps down and. going to the paper, 
rapidly, calling our line for line to the people around him as he writes, 
and pausing: for their consent, which Is given In breathless 

Yos. yes." \ II ri'_ r ht ." on." 

1 • 



EPISODE THREE -THE WILDERNESS AND THE REVOLUTION 

"Nov. 5th, 1774. 

"Resolved: Thai we will bear the most faith- 
ful allegiance to His Majesty, Kin- George the 
Third, whilst His Majestj delights to reign over 
a brave and free people; thai we will, at the ex- 
pense of life, and everything dear and \ . 1 1 u ; 1 1 » 1 « • 
exerl ourselves in supporl of His Crown, ami 
the dignity of the British Empire. Bu1 a-- lov- 
ers <■!' liberty 

(A pause and then there are cheers.) 

we resolve thai we will exerl every power with- 
in us for the defense of American rights." 

Signed . ' ' 

( !ome <>ii. t hen. 

Benjamin Ashh signs first. Then all the soldiers and the settlers, 
one by one, all crowding up without noise or disturbance. One young 
boy is lifted up to sign. The officer then takes down the paper, wraps 
it up, calls uj) a young man who happens to have a horse, gives it to him, 
who puts it solemnly in his breast, and says to him: 

' ' Ride. < !arry it to I he < !on1 inental ( longri 

The people all cheer as he mounts, and some call out: 

" I leaven protecl \ ou '. ' ' 

He dashes off. The people stand, waiting. They all appear to be 
listening. After a good while is heard from a great distance, men's 
voices Binging together, unseen: 

"Then conquer we must 
For our cause it is just, 
And t his be our mol to: 

'In God is our Trust 

They also hear the chorus. "The star Spangled Banner," which is 
joined in by the choir. 

Immediately below the choir the curtains are drawn for an instant, 
and THK FLAG appears. The Curtains fall. 






INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 



III. INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 
GIDEON AND THE LAMPS 



Enter the Prayers of Soldiers, marching I ch end of terrace, 

displaying evidences of a long, wearj and terrible warfare. They throng 
up on to the pavement and fill on their knees, throwing up their hands, 

crying out: 

"Give us a State; give ih ;i country; drive out tl 
enemy in the land." 

The Torch appears, and says to them: 

"There is no restrainl to the Lord to save l>> many 
or by few." 

And Btanding before the curtains bids them rise. They do so and i 

the Soldiers ol Gideon, who crowd around him in the central arch. He 

puts into each one's hand a lighted lamp and a long trumpet . 

The Chanter 

"And it came to pass the same night, thai the Lord 
said unto liitn: 'Arise, gel thee down unto the host; for 
I have delivered it into thine hand.' 

"And he divided the three hundred men into thr 
companies, and he pul a trumpel in every man's hand, 
with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 

"And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake 
the pitchers, ami held the lamps in their left hands, and 
the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal; and 
they cried: 'The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.' 

Judges VII : 9-16 20 

As he says the last words, the Soldiers of Gideon lift their trumj 
and their lamps. The Torch has quicklj touched the lamps of the soldiers 
and turns to the pavement, and the curtain tails, 'i 
ment Immediately repeat, drawing their 

"The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon." 

The Choir 

The Sun of .Man goes forth to war, 

A kingly crown to gain ; 
His blood-red banner streams afar. 

Who follow v n His train .' 
Who besl can drink his cup of w 

Triumphant over pain. 
Who patient hears his crOSS below, 

lie follows ill His train. 

While the\ sing this, the soldiers, as the Torch pas. ■ ■■'n them, 

reach and put their swords into the baptism of light. With them still 
drawn, they follow the Torch in marching order, singing with the choir. 

21 



THE RECESSION OF THE INDIAN 



THE RECESSION OF THE INDIAN 

Enter two Indian chiefs and towo soldiers, bearing between them a 
great scroll, which thej spread out and hold across the whole back of 
terrace, it bears the Legend, "The Treats of Greenville," and under these 
word larged facsimile of the Indian signatures, it is a background 

to the following scene: 

The Chanter takes his place and during the following chant the In- 
dians pass across the terrace in long procession, Bad and conquered — in 
tribes and families, their chiefs at their head, their little families on 
the pole sledges as at first. The people of a better country run out to 
see them go. and arc silenced from their curiositj Into solemnity. A 
little girl reaches up ber apron of cakes to the Indian mothers. The chant 
should cover the whole of their recessional 

The Chanter 

Now once i 'e rise and once more slowly go 

To other grazing fields, ye buffalo; 

Man neither tears nor needs yon. and lias decreed 
Here shall live only what shall fill his need. 

Farewell, high-headed moose and sullen hear. 
All shadow peering things that fly the glare 

< )|' 1 he greal harvest sun : 

Farewell, ye deer and prettj spotted fawns, 
Halting in troups to nibble ferny lawns 
On your long pilgrimage; shy graces ye 

< »f virgin soil, lost wit h mat uritj . 

And soon forever -_ r oiie. 
And with you, mile on dusty mile. 
The Indiana pass m single file; 
Proud ami loth to recognize 

Their day is gone. With haughty eyes 
Ami plumage splendid, round the waist 
Their wampum belts with head-work chased: 

Their leggin fringes tipped with steel. 

Blurring their tracks from either heel; 

< >n their hacks t heir ipiivers hung, 

Ami hows with reindeer sinew strung, 
Ami onyx-headed arrows; so. 

hressed fur a hunting do they go, 

Conscious in every step thej tread. 

Of eagle feathers 'round each head. 

The\ took their BquaWS and painted hra\es. 

They left their legends ami their gravel 

The names, the solids, the myster\ 
Of OUT first history. 

22 



TIIK HKCKSSIUN OF THE INDIAN 



Oh, Conquerors, beware 

I low well you guard, how honorably you mind 

The obligal iod \\ hich the wilderm 

1 n going, lea ves behind ; 
Which tree and beasl and savage, as the) pass 
Eternally upon j our conscious bind. 

The} broughl you danger, hunger, toil and woe; 

They gave you fearful odds and wily foe, 

They darkened every path and dogged your ways 

Thai t lnis \ our souls rnighl grow 
To niaiili I's stature and to heaven's praise. 

< }one is the danger and the fear of death, 
I iosI is t he need for courage and for faith ; 

But, o|i. do not refuse, 

Oli never, never lose 
Lordship of soul, tin- spirit's brighl command 
To which, alone, they yielded up their land. 

And as from strength to strength and year to • 
Y.ai go, mid wealth of fields, and markets' chei 
Pray 'iod Be keep from noise of earth apart 

A prima] silence somewhere in the heart, 

Where oftentimes you still may feel afraid. 
And look to Him for aid. 

After the people have gon< the Indians are so^n for some time 

in the distant E the woods, slowly vanishing anion- the .trees. 






EPISODE FOUR- THE ORDINANCE OP 17^7 



EPISODE IV. 

THE ORDINANCE OF 1787. 



Kilter soldiers in gala uniform with roses in their hats. They march 
to small platform erected in front of pavement, and stand on each side. 
Enter a crowd of pioneers, below the platform, expecting something, and 
d in their Sunday clothes. 

Enter from one end of terrace a company of little girls carrying a 
bower of roses. Entei at other end of terrace, on horseback and escort- 
ed i)> two aides, two gentlemen and two ladies, also on horseback, Gov. 
St. Clair. The soldiers fire a salute. The little girls cany their bower of 
roses to the center of approach to the platform. The Governor and his 
party dismount amid the cheers of the people. The accompanying gentle- 
men and ladies remain at one side. He walks under the bower of roses 
and ascends the platform. The aides follow him. The little girls then 
part the rose bower al the top into long sprays and. each carrying one. 
they also enter the platform and stand in a semi-circle around the Gov- 
ernor. He turns and smiles at them and motions them to sit. which they 
do. Children have come with their elders in the crowd below the plat- 
form, and through the following words thej continue to arrive in great 
and greater numbers. An aide of the Governor has carried the Flag, and 
on its appearance there is wild delight. He stands with it behind the 
Governor. 

Gov. St. Clair 

"People of the Northwesl Territory: — 

"You have thronged into tins wilderness as it' led hith- 
er i>.\ a Torch. I believe it is the enlightenmenl from 
God which lias led you. as it musl ever lead the human 
race. You have had the effrontery to look upon thes< 
wilds as your own. The\ are your own: you have carv- 
ed them by the righl of imagination out of the chaos of 
disorder. When you shad have grown to the numbers 
laid upon you by Congress, you will become a state, and 
your name will be Ohio the firsl state m the history 
of man Pounded from the beginning upon Republican prin- 
ciples. 

i He pan- es. I !h( • 

"Lei those principles endure The blood and bone of 

sacred heroes, not only from our noble fathers, hut from 
our Doble Bavage enemy, is iii them. To them, who yield- 
ed lis so much, as well as to those who won it with their 

lives, do you owe thai state of genuine civilization "which 
shall be in the hands of Providence the instrument for 
bringing forward that time when all the nations of the 
earth shall become the kingdom of Jesus Christ." 

i He pause- ii'. on . : ten <eiii inn.- i 

L'l 



EPISODE FOUR THE ORDINANCE OF 17^7 



"I know, gentlemen, the way is not easy. Y<»u have 
chosen the most exalted political path ever trod by man, 
In it yon will be guided to a jusl achievement by tl 
document, The < Ordinance of 1 7^7. 
(He opens a greal scroll and reads from It.) 

"Six Articles from The Ordinance for the Governmenl 
d!' the Territory of the United States, Xorthwesl of the 
Ohio River." 

"These Articles shall 1 nsidered ; ripacl between 

tl riginal States and the people in said territory, and 

forever remain unalterable unless b) common consent." 

Article 1. Freedom of worship and religious Senti- 
ment . 

Article tl. Righl of trial by jury and Habeas Corpus. 
Article III Religion, morality and knowledge, being 
necessary to good governmenl and the hap- 
piness of mankind, schools and the means 
of education shall forever be encouraged. 
Article [V. Said territory and the States which may 
be formed therein, shall remain forever a 
pari of this confederacy of the United States 
of America. 
Article V. Such State when admitted into Congress 
shall be al liberty to form a permanent 
State ( rovernmenl . bul it must be a republi- 
can form of government. 
Article VI, There shall be neither slavery nor involun- 
tary servitude in said territory." 
He folds the scroll. The children have by this time covered the ter- 
race. They have crowded up onto the platform. He turns, noticing them 
with pleasure. The little girls with the rose bowers then rise and form 
the arch again above him. 

Gov. St. Clair 
Let us thru educate our children to the good of hu- 
manity and t he fear of God. 

The people cl r. He turns with a child in each hand, walks through 

the bower of roses and out along the terrace The little girls with the 
follow him; and all the people and all the children his family 
company al a distance He goes up the school Bteps and knocks on the 
door, out comes the teacher of the pioneer period. The Governor 
the scroll and reads him the third article of the ordinance The teacher 
bows to him and immediately presents the children with open books 
and leads them into the school. The choir sings: 

"Jesus shall reign" 

and stops there The) all crowd Governor and into the achool. 

The Governor and his partj loiter hack to the horses al other end The 
soldiers march off and the crowd begins to disperse. As the Governor's 
party begin to mount, one of the ladies, taking a gentleman's hand to 
mount, instead, turns with him into a minuet An Improvised tic,'. 
the minuet is then dame,] in riding costume, after which, with some 
quiet chatter and soft laughing, the party canters off. The crowd 
gone. 

25 



IXTKIM.IDE OF LIGHT 



IV. INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 
SAMUEL AND THE TEMPLE LIGHT. 



Enter the Prayers of children from the steps a) side of colonnade, 
out of the school onto the platform. They carry little torches like candles, 
which are not lighted. They run around and kneel down, facing the arch- 
es. They lift their torches and say, not all together, but in groups: 

"i }ive us light. < rive us lighl !" 
Enter the Torch with no light. He says to them: 

"The Lord will give you Light." 

He goes between them and beckons the curtains to rise. There is 
disclosed the vision of little Samuel, asleep by the altar, and the lamp 
of God hanging over him. 

The Chanter 

••Ami it came i*> pass at thai time, when Eli was laid 
down in his place, and his eyes began t" w;i\ dim, that 
he could ticii see ; 

And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the 
Lord, where the ark id God was. and Samuel was laid 

(loWll tn sleep : 

Thai the Lord called Samuel; and he answered, "Here 
am [."- I I Samuel III. 2-4 

The child Samuel awakes, listens, kneels immediately, and looks up. 
The Ton-h reaches up ami touches the lamp. His torch Barnes out. He 

turns again to the Prayers <>f Children and the curtain falls together. 

The children inn to him. reaching up their candles to touch his fire. 
Each child's candle burns and he turns and runs out onto the ten 
and away. The terrace is thronged with sparkles of light that run out 
into the world. 



16 



EPISODE FIVE— PEACE AND WAR, 1812 

EPISODE Y. 

PEA( I. AND WAR. L812. 



A sound of young people's voices laughing and talking. A few rnmo 
running around the corner of the terrace carrying cornstalks in their arms. 
More follow gaily with fiddlers 

Enter, at op] ad, far off in the woods, a company of ragged 

soldiers, who make camp and sit around their flres mi the grass in a 
weary fashion. The young people, front, gather Blowlj around the center 
of terrace. Enter from opposite end in a desultory fashion, a singular 
figure. He wears a tin sauce pan on his head for a cap. with the handle 
behind, a coffee sack with holes cut oul for head and arms as a coat, 
irries a paper sack under one arm and stops now and then to dig 
a little wilh a stick and plant something from the bag. 

Enter after the young people, from first end, a few farmers of the 
period with their scythes, sickles, etc. Their wives have come to see 
the corn husking and carry, some, babies, some, baskets of cakes and 
buckets of sonp. 

Farmer Petty to Farmer Arrowsmith 

How ile (In. Farmer Arrowsmith ' How's Hie crops! 
brol her. 

Farmer Arrowsmith in Farmer IVtn 
Thanks to the sickle ami the scythe, the land's all righl 
now. Farmer Petty. I have mowed ten acres a day me 
ami my brothers. 

Farmer Petty 

Big harvests are coming along. I have as man} as 

t u eh e shea ves to t he stook. 

Farmer Logan (arriving late) 
I 'in so -lad 3 e all waited for me. 

(A general laugh.) 

Johnny Appleseed has approached and. as they pile up the work and 
sit around it, he continues reading aloud from the little ragged book he 
has taken from his In • 

"So too, loving the neighbor does not mean Loving a 
companion as to person, bul loving truth that is from 
the Word, and loving Truth is willing ami doing it. Prom 

this it is plain that ' 

He looks up and sees the young people and the farmers, and says: 

••How ile do, everybody." 

And then continues reading: 

27 



KIMSODK KIVE— PEACE AND WAR, 1812 



"Thai tin' Lord's Divine in heaven is Love, is 1 ause 

love is tin- receptacle of all things of heaven, which are 
peace, intelligence, wisdom ami happiness." 

He looks up. 

••• Johnny's words mi reading these quotations. 
"News righl fresh from heaven." 
•* How are you all .'" 

A Young Girl 
Wr\ well, Johnny. Come and sit down with us. 

A Young Man 
I low are i he apples 
Johnny turning slowly and courteously to each one 
" l in list pass on. The Lord's in a In wry with my work." 

(To the \ouii^ man i 

"The apples an- tin- fruit, sir. after the planting, 
Good works after temptation, you know. I can'1 remem- 
ber tin- number of that." 

He passes on. slowly Bhaking his head. Farmer Petty accosts him: 

"Whal is th.it hook, my friend, from which you read?" 

Johnny Appleseed 

Swedenborg, your honor, the servanl of tin' Lord. 

A little girl has run oul from her mother ami embraced him. He 
gives hop a ribbon; thej walk along together slowly past the husking 
group. 

Farmer Arrowsmith to Farmer Petty 
He's well known in these parts We love him. But 
lei hi in tell you. 

Farmer Petty to Johnny 
And w ho arc \ OU, > ourself, sir .' 

Johnny Appleseed 
(He takes off his aucepan hat ami gives il to the woman, who dips 
in in her bucket.' 

Tin His Bervant, too; Johnny Appleseed 

To the woman, who hands him his soup: 

I -iir^s that's my name, isn't it.' Planting apples, you 
s.-.' and generally cultivating the internal and the exter- 
nal for tin- next generation. Here, mum to the woman . 
is your pippin seeds. I've examined your lot south of the 
pasture and it's all righl well protected. Thankee no 

I'll sit righl here where Mary Ann has a place for me. 
He 11 down by the little girl with tin- saucepan on hia knees. 

Jesl you -o righl on with your husmess. friends. I'm 
nobody in particular. 



EPISODE FIVE— PEACE AND WAR, 1812 



He begins to eal and he and the little girl talk together. 

The work on the corn has proceeded rapidlj Some one calls for the 

fiddlers, who have l n smoking their pipes at one side, a country 

dance is planned for and the corn gathered up. During this, Johnny gets 
up, puts his saucepan hal on again, and. taking his hook from his breast, 
approaches the woman who fed him, 

Johnny Appleseed 
Here, mum, is those nexl pages aboul little children 
in heaven, number 216. It bitches righl on to what you 
have, yes, mum, thank ee, mum. 

He turn- to the farmers rather timidly, as thej are occupied in watch- 
ing the young people. He touches farmer Pettj on his arm. 

Johnny Appleseed 
[f you like, sir. I'll |*ive ye tins number about work 
in heaven, \ T o. 242. 
(He tears it out and gh es il to him. i 

I 'in sorry I can't give ye more, sir. bul you see, I pass 
it on from soul to soul an infallible protection againsl 
dangers here and hereafter. 

Farmer Petty (taking the pa<j 

I thank yon, sir we need thai protection. 

The dance is on -Blind-man's Buff Square Dance Broad Jump — Vir- 
ginia Reel, and Johnny wanders off and is gone. Ai '.ancc is 
well under waj a roll of distant drums arrests them. 

The Choir 
"So long Thy power hat n blessed me, sure it still 

Will load me "ti 
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, 'till 

The nighl is gone; 
And with the morn those angel faces smile. 
Which 1 have loved long since, and hist awhile.*' 

Their voices arc drowned in the fife and drum and tramp of many 
feet. Hull's army approaches, a ragged regiment marching with the col- 
ors. Their captain steps forward to the young farmers and says: 

"Peace is over. It' yon love your country. March." 

The words, "WAR, WAR," 1 1 > about. The young farmers hastily - 
their guns, the girls hanging round them. Cries of 

' ' So soon !'' "Xol yel !" "Goodbye 

They eagerly take their pi "idea-, tearing themselves 

from the farewells of their sweethearts. The farmers take their places 
with them. Other pioneers rush from the woods, crying 

Take me too ; wait for me 

and Join them, and the armj marches past, amid ti ind fluttering 

handkerchiefs "f the women. The armj turns and gradually disappears 
in extreme background. The women left behind sadly and wearily Rath- 
er tip tb" remain of the happy husking part} and carry their corn and 
the children oil with them. 



INTERLUDE OF LICHT 



V. INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 
ADORATION OK Till MAGI. 



Enter from each side terrace the Prayers of Youth, young men and 
maidens in couples and singly, with their hands lifted, and heads thrown 
back. They till the platform and kneel. Thej cry aloud in different 
groups, the girls and boys together: 

" < Juide us on our way 
To immortal day. " 

The boys, separately: 

"Shine ou1 and answer!" 

The girls, separately: 

"Shine out and answer !" 

Enter the Torch running. He says to the Prayers: 

"Jesus said, 'I am the Lighl of the World.' 

He waits before the curtains as before and they part, showing the 
Adoration of the Magi. A1 one end of the colonnade sits the Virgin, 
her back partly to the front, bending over a strong light. Around her are 
grouped the familiar figures of the scene. Tim three kings come in one 
by one, in adoring attitudes, and kneel before the light. The Torch en- 
ters and kneels, also lifting his torch to it. He rises with flaming light 
and steps out, the curtains falling behind him. During this, the Chanter 
has declaimed: 

The Chanter 
"When they had heard the king, they departed; and 

lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them. 

till it st 1 over where the young child was. 

"When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceed- 
ing croat joy." Matthew II. 9-10 



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EPISODE VI. 

THE RUSH OF LIFE. 

First Scene 

THE CIRCUIT COURT 

A small group of citizens wander in behind three horsemen, who dis- 
mount, tie their nags i<> a tree, and set up a surveyor's tripod. The 
horsemen are McCLELLAND, HARLIN and HALSEY. Among the group 
-if citizens, JOHN HUMPHREYS, WILLIAM POWELL, PAUL HUSTON, 
FREDERICK AMBROSE, SIMON KENTON, who i s an old man leaning 
on a cane, EDWARD PEARCE, WILLIAM WARD and JOSEPH VANCE. 
The riders go to William Ward. 

McClelland 
Where is that owner of oaks, William Ward? 

Ward 
I am he Lei us la\ oul a town. 

Thereupon, he and the three riders walk from oak to oak in consul- 
tation. Betting up ami moving the tripod and waving their anus in all 
directions. The others watch them curiously and then move on to meet 
three other riders on nags at the other end the Circuit Court. These 
elderly gentlemen dismount, chattering and laughing, their saddlebags 
bulging with docket and deed, and are soon set about a table among the 
Citizens, with Joseph Vance as clerk. During this, and as Ward and the 
three others survey the oaks and then proceed slowly in conversation ao 
to the table where the Circuit Court sits, the chanter declaims: 

See McClelland and Harlin and Halsey, who ride, 
By statute commissioned, in valour set forth, 
With their cabins behind and before them the North. 
Audacious their orders and bold their commands 
To seize with their souls what eludeth their hands. 

Now where the buckeye spreads bis shade 
And Lights his candles in the sun, 
William Ward had clearing made. 
Near a flag-grown marshy glade 
Where the long-legged herons wade; 
The Indians called it Hopkesepe Run. 

Here the three dismounted, and. 

( 'halt hilt, glanced aboul I he land ; 
Walked with Ward from oak to oak. 
Long they looked and short they spoke; 
Their souls like eagles in the air 

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EPISODE SIX- THE RUSH OF LIFE 



Saw a hundred years unfold, 
Fields of green and fields of gold, 
( Irowded streel and village square ; 
A in i beneath the buckeye shade 
Straighl a eompad they have made, 
Spoken mind to mind. 

No ancienl beech with his store of fruits, 
\o oak enthroned 'mid thousand roots, 
No deer. Dor bear 
Who inhabited there, 

That c pad saw <>r signed, 

Y-t \\ I an say, when the moon rose clear 

Above the pheasanl 's river, 
They did no1 feel thai compacl bind, 

Ami oak to buckeye shiver ! 
The fur. -K of Qrbana fell 
A aew aame into the branches melt, 

Bu1 Hopkesepe, aever. 

So the three cantered home to reporl what they saw, 
A town tli<> had placed, and established the law. 
They struck nol a blow and the} asked do rep] • 

I'.nt a country they took with their souls and their eyes. 

By this time they have reached the table and the Court. The Judg- 
es stand .-is they come in. and the surveyors bow to them separately, 
speaking their names, "Judge Dunlevy," "John Reynolds," "John Runyan." 
They then place in their hands, through William Ward, a parchment scroll, 
and bowing again, they nun. run to their horses and mount and gallop 
off whence thej came. The Judges sit again. 

Judge Dunlevy 

This tirst courl of common pleas in the County of 
Champaign, has been an occasion to remember. Joseph 
Vance, before we .i"L r on t<> Chillicothe, will you read, as 
Clerk of the Court, the names >>\' its distinguished grand 
jury I 

Joseph Vance gets his paper ready.) 

You understand, sirs, the bear ami the wolf are Bcarce 
ly gone from among us; man} of the honorable Courl 
itself have suffered at the hands "I' savages, ami 1 repeal : 
this is a memorable gathering. 

Joseph Vance (standing 
John Humphreys, William Powell, John (lark, Paul 
Huston, Prederich Ambrose, Simon Kenton, Edward 
Pearce, Moses !'■ Corwin, William Ward, Henry Bacon, 
ami James ' looley. 

i He sits dou n i 



EPISODE SIX THE RUSH OP LIFE 



Judge Dimlew 
Some one will preserve these names, for your children, 
sirs ! ( 'ome now. 

ill. lean bach and i ■ 

[s there anything to bring before us '>n closing this s< 
- 1 " 1 1 .' 

Joseph Vance 

There is the matter of the survey, your honor! 

Judge Dunlevy 
Ah yes, the dividing of all tins pleasanl land as it is 
so provided for, into townships of— 

William Ward 
Six miles square, your hoilor thus by lines running 
due north and south and others crossing al righl angles, 
here al Pickaway, he»'e al Mad River 

Judge Dunlevy 
Sil down beside us. Ward 1 h « • \ make room for Ward 
and Simon Kenton, nunc; wc need your wisdom. 

(Simon Kenton sits down front, but says nothing. He i smoking a 
pipe.) 

Judge Dunlevy 

Spread oul the map. Ah yes, the lovely glade of 
oalcs around t he I lopkese] - Run ! 

William Ward 
There shall be a town here. Look, we will donate this 
square for the center of the town. It shall be for public 
u^.' and enjoyment. 

Joseph Vance 
The markets, the stores, to stand all around. 

William Ward 

An. I the principal streets to run transverse out of the 
middle of each side 

(He looks with pride aa he sketchea it.) 

That will give it an unusual appearance, different 

from other towns. 

Judge Dunlevy 
Vrn good, sir. But where is the seat of just; 

William Ward 

There is a log house here on Lo1 171 which might be 
used for the Court until we can build a better. 



EPISODE SIX THE Kl SH OF LIFE 



Edward Pearce 
And when we build it. it shall stand in the center of 

town 

William Ward 

With columns to its porch ! 

Judge Dunlevy 
A log cabin is a good square deal for justice, my 
friends. It will suffice for the present. 

William Ward 
I will give tine land to that town, parks and play- 
grounds. 

Joseph Vance 
I will give also, and work I'm- it. It shall be our town! 

Judge Dunlevy 
And I'll send you to Congress from that district, and 
we'll make you Governor of the State, sir. 

(They all laugh.) 

Judge Dunlevy (to Simon Kenton) 
Ami you, Kenton, what will you give this m-w tov. 

Simon Kenton (slowlj 
I have owned lands, sir, which I took with my fool and 
my gun, bu1 I have forgotten where they arc. I have 
nothing hut my grave and my mime to leave the town. 

Judge Dunlevy (to Simon Kenton 

Ami the grave and the name of a brave man is a good 

bequest, Simon. 

(He leans bark and looks at Ward.) 

Now by what name. William, would you call that town? 

William Ward 
It could m>t well be called Hopkesepe ! 

The Citizens ;i few at a t ime 
N'ii It is nut an Indian town. 

Joseph Vance 
Smiie great Indians have lived here: Tecumseh it \\;is 

his home. 

Judge Dunlevy 
Bui they have gone with the bear and the wolf. Tins 

is a very gracious land, sir; its county seat should have 
B gentle, 1 Should say, BOmewhal classic name; a little 

scholastic, sir, with an eye to the learning of the young 

sters put a smack of Latin in it a smack of Latin; 

make it urbane 



EPISODE SIX THE Rl SH OF LIFE 

William Ward 
For thai very reason, your Honor, I had thought of 
the name LJrbana. 

Judge Dunlevy 

• I Irnt i i;i in'-. I rlmiiii it is. 
(He stands up.) 

We] I. are i he nags ready " 

Tho others stand. A little hostler brings In their naps. The Circuit 
Court mounts and jogs off The others walk away. 



Second Scene 

THE STAGE COACH 

While groups of citizens and pioneers very graduall) come upon tho 
■cene (In the garb and manner of the previous Bcene). 

The Chanter 

Now is the time to remember and praise 
The na mes of our pal ria rchal daj s, 

First, Ward, who caughl from the wilderness 
The lands which ever his children bless, 
1 [erald of arts by which men live, 
He took t hal he mighl have to give. 

Then Reynolds, who over his counter sold. 
To those who had neither silver ii'>r L r «>l<l. 
A.wl-blades and axes, needles and tin-. -ad. 
( lalico, powder, tobacco and lead, 
In exchange for linen and linsey and shoes, 
Beeswax and deerskins, tallow and news. 
Banker and merchanl and postmaster, he; 

His counsel for white man and Indian, t'r- 

Beloved by the girls as he opens his bales, 

And courted by youths when he hands out the mails. 

Then Kenton and Weaver and Pearce and Vance 
And Runyon and Renick and Luce and Pern 
Poor was }<>wr pay and little ye sought, 
A century's praise for the work ye wrought. 
Honor them now, for slender their story, 
And easily Lost is their diffidenl glory. 

Enter Reynolds, a very busy man. dragging the mail bags, Runyon 
and Renick hurry after him. 

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Kl'ISODK SIX— TDK RUSH OF LIFE 



Runyon 
(In a dazed, lazy way, scratching his head.) 

••|t 'minds me of some'al the) tell me j estre'en, thai 
the horseman warn'1 > ling for the mails qo more." 

Reynolds 
Pay ii" attention, Mr. Runyon, to what you hear, but 
to what you see. You see the mail to be sorted before 
he arrives, don'1 ee? < !ome, Renick. 

Renick 
Hut he aint going to arrive ! 

(Nevertheless, they get to work. Enter one or two inquiring for the 
Postman i 

•• Wonder if he casl a shoe !" 

Reckon his horse gol took down Mad River on the cur- 
rent. It's running strong after the rain." 

Renick 
Bui there ainl no horse! 

(Others laugh, i 

Farmer Petty 
What's this talk of no horse and no post? Is the 
countrj going backwards? 

They all question and gossip together, bringing in letters toi the Post- 
man and assisting or retarding Reynolds at the bags. During this 

The Chanter I continues 

And, In. the arms of courtesy and peace 
Eager the farthest village to embrace, 
Clear \'<>v themselves a level running pis 
To Union, Concord, Harmony and Zane, 
They hurry past the sawmill and the plane; 
Like shining ribbons stretched the Land about, 
Behold, the pikes run out. 
And 1". 
What ho! 
Plunging over root and brier 
Where the Indians lit their Bre, 
Breaking silence dark and deep 
Where the ancienl forests sleep. 
Reckless of the bogs and snags, 
Scattering herds of antlered stags, 
Horse and four wheels crashing past, 
Hail ti> the Btage-coach and to him who drii 
Welcome the Bocial years and gentler In 

Kntor Mr. Luce, running. 



EPISODE six - Tin-: ursn of lifk 



Mr. Luce er) ing oul 
She's coming! 

A Voice 
Whal 's In 1 !- aame ! 

Mr. Luce 
She's smashing ri'_ r lit over everything, Listen! Hear 
her ! — 
They all listen. The sound of a distant horn. 
Mr. Luce in franl ic jo; 
The Stage ( !oacli ! 

All exclaim with him and run to watch. A distant Bound of a coach 
horn. Whi reupon the Stage Coach dashes up across the terrace with brass 
horn winding. As it approaches, more men, women and children appear 
from field and home, running after it excitedly. 

\ it comes to a stand, out of it steps a family in careful and elegant 
dress of a later The pioneer people approach them def- 

erentially, and as thej do so, it i evident that manners and social re- 
quirements have arrived. The children courtesy to each other, as do the 
elders. In groups of two or three a few walk slowly back across the ter- 
race, expressing in their dress and bearing different a ' the more 
comfortable years Meanwhile the Coachman steps down. 

The Coachman 

Well, here I am, the new order of things. How do 
you like it " 
(Pointing with pride to his Coach and six.) 

All in di tVeretit voices and places 
Welcome, welcome, look al the coach! four wheels! 
wonderful six hors 
• j crowd around, i 

Mr. Reynolds 
The mail is ready, ( loachman. 

Mr. Renick i to the Coachman 
I '■•• you t lie posl ma n tc 
Fnter the Industries, running with hales and bundles, shouting: 
"Yes, V s - he is the Postman, and the exprt 

The Coachman (with dignity 
I have here .1 letter for Parmer Petty. 
Mr. Renick 

Parmer Arrowsmith, I guess the country ainl going 
backwards, after all, is ii 

The Coachman 
That letter let't Pickaway this morning ;it dawn. 
(Crii eat astonishment. Thej all look at the lettt 



EPISODE SIX— POLITICS 



Mr. Reynolds (commandingly) 
Tlic mails are closed. I ><> no1 detain the mails 

(The mails are lifted in. i 

The Coachman 

Ready, sir. Stand aside, gentlemen; wish me ^ r ood 
luck in t he Eoresl l 

Cries of 

'■<i I luck, good luck." 

The Coachman (as he gets under way) 
See you all this day next week. 

He dashes off. The crowd loiters hack, talking it over and tryin? 
to read farmer Arrowsmith's letl 

Meanwhile, the group that alighted from the Stage Coach has been 
increased by the church goers, walking quietly with their psalm books 
under their arms. SOCietj lovera with fan anil parasol, the market wo- 
men with their baskets, the lawyers with quill pens behind their ears, 
one doctor with his bag and umbrella. 

One Churchgoer 
Rev. Price will no doubl preach us a g 1 sermon. 

Another Churchgoer 
The Buck < 'reek Congregation can use it. 

Market Women 
Venison and Bear's meal is no longer cheap! My man 
hungers for it. 

Another Market Woman 
Bui think of the white flour! 

Lawyer 

The il Is are becoming smaller as the land is divided 

up. 

Doctor 
More babies i ban funerals a good sign for the country. 

(This procession passes and goes Ofl I 



Third Scene 

POLITICS 



Kilter near door at right end of terrace, ironi woods behind, a rol- 
licking, noisy, political procession. The) carrj transparencies, mottoes 
Indicating the presidential campaign for Harrison and Tyler, especially. 
one bearing 

• l'l IK PEOPLE IS OLL KORRECT ' 

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EPISODE SIX POLITICS 



All are shouting and blowing horns. They all crowd together around 
the door Btep of the BChool and a delegation of more sober minded men 
appears, leadinj General Harrison between them up onto the Btep, Moses 
B. Corwin lifts a hand and silences the crowd. He Bays: 

"You have now all heard General Harrison, in the 
Square. \><u all know he is our future President. H< 
hungry, he doesn'1 want it. speak again. Will sum.' one 
ring i he dinner bel 
(Some one doi 

Meanwhile a big table has been set up on the terrace and there has 
been a stream of women furnishing it fo ,: 'l fashioned carry- 

alls and buggies and family carts have driven up and hitched under tho 
trees. Little booths are set up quickly. Picturesque chara every 

ption come from i impany 

of young men stag) in front of the table, carrying a 

huge roasted ox on a spit between them. The) carrj it hack of terrace 
and from thence reappear with hug< ; or whole ribs, as the 

case may be. The General's partj approach the table and he is seated 
in the center; the table is then seated to overflowing, incessant talking 
and laughing goes on. Cries of "Speed I eneral Harrison 

rises and hows; there is sileni 

General Harrison 

Gentlemen, 1 will make a speech. This is a ver\ \i 1 

dinner. Mr. Ward's trees arc very beautiful. 
i Applause.) 

Bui Hi" besl thing of the day has been your own 
speech, carried on thai banner yonder. Lei the gentleman 

hold il up. 

(The man di "THE PEOPLE IS OLL KORRECT." (General 

applause, i 1 le <■ >n1 in . 

I think thai speech will endui eially the spell- 

ing. 

(He siis down. Great applause.) A lively fellow then jumps up on 
the table and says: 

"I'll sing 3 e a speech. " 

Whereupon he breaks into a kind of breakdown chant, and Is J< 
vociferously in the chorus of the following: 

Tippecanoe's Raisin' 
Come, all you log-cabin hoys, we're going to have a raisin"; 
We've gol a job on hand thai we think will be pleasin'. 
We'll turu out and build old Tip a new cabin, 
And finish it off with chinkin' and daubin'. 
We want all the log-cabin boys in the nation 
To be on the ground when we raise the foundation: 
And we'll make all the office-holders think it amazin', 
To see how we work at <>U Tippecanoe's raisin'. 
Hurrah, hurrah, for Harrison and Tyler, 
A neat loL r cabin and a barrel of hard cider. 



EPISODE SIX THE RAILROAD 



< >n the thirtiel h day of oexl < October, 

We'll take sum.' hard cider, bul we'll all keep sober; 

We'll shoulder our axes and cu1 down the timber, 

Ami have our cabin done by the second of I> mberj 

We'll have it well chinked, and we'll have od the cover 
Of good sound clapboards, and the weighl of poles over, 
And a good wide chimney for the 6re to blaze in; 
So come on boys, to old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 

Hurrah, hurrah, for Harrison and Tyler, 
A oeal log cabin and a barrel of hard cider. 

( Ihio will find the house Log timber, 
And old Virginia, as you II remember, 
Will find the timber for clapboards and chinkin'; 
'Twill all be firsl rate stuff, 1 'm thinkin'; 
And when we wanl to daub it. it happens very lucky, 
Thai we have the besl of Clay in old Kentucky; 
For there's no other state has such good Clay in 
To make the mortar for old Tippecanoe's raisin'. 
Hurrah, hurrah, for Harrison and Tyler, 
A nea1 log cabin and a barrel of hard cider. 

"We'll cut oul ;i window and have a wide door in; 

We'll lay a g I lofl and a firsl rate floor in; 

We'll tix it all complete for old Tip to see his friends in. 
And we know thai the latch-string will never have its end in. 
On the fourth day of March. Old Tip will move in it. 
Anil then little Martin will have to shin it; 
So, hurrah, boys, there's no two ways in 

The fun we'd have at Old Tippecanoe's raisin". 

Then hurrah, hurrah, for Harrison and Tyler, 
A nice log cabin and a barrel <d' hard cider. 

During the last par! ol tins chant, the foreground people have grad- 
ually dispersed and gone, and at its close the whole company stands and 
rolls the tabic off the terrace together, shouting the chorus as thoy go. 
Histon of Champaign County, by John \v Ogden, p 282 

Fourth Scene 

THE RAILROAD 
Enter Stage Coacb in background, slowly and wearily. The increa*- 
inK Industries load and attempt to atari the coach. All La contusion of 
hurry and cries, a blacksmith is sen Bhoeing < mi- of the horses. 

The Chanter above the voices 

See I 'rhann 's people stand 

With Bags and brazen village hand, 
Gazing down a road of steel. 

Ah. u hat I PemorS d<> I hey feel 
At the tirst low thunder 
The distant cornfields under ! 

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EPISODE SIX THE RAILROAD 



It comes, Steam Engine, Horse of Man's desire, 
Live, with his passion snorting, belching fire. 
Now Jin' the days of horseback journeys fled, 
And the stage-coach sits, a wreck, in the tavern shed. 

Enter at the other end a newspaper boy running and shouting the 
name of the paper "The Western and Qrbana i He 

shouts: 

The Mad River and Lake Erii Railroad! Connecting 
Cincinnati and Sandusky City! Only 14 miles of stagh 
between New Orleans and New ^Tork! 
i Aside to a customer. > 

Yes sir, only 1 1 miles ! 1 la \ e a paper 
(Shouting, i 

Only three days from Cincinnati to New Tork with . 
of only one nighl 's sleep ! 
i Aside to a customer, i 

Y.n. sir, onh one nighl 's sleep ! I la \ e oi 
(Shouting. ) 

Cincinnati to Sandusky only 1~> hours -Mad River 
and Lake Erie Railroad ! 

The crowd turns and meets him, buying papers, talking, excited, point- 
ing towards the railroad. They gradually move in thai direction. The 
Stage Coach remains deserted by all, 

A crowd of citizens gather on the railroad embankment with a vil 
lage band playing, and a gay group, the best t the ] eriod 

Farmer 

"S'manthie, they'll never starl her." * 

S'manthie 
"Hiram, you come back here. Don't yon go running 
after t ha1 engine ! " 

(The Steam Engine dash.- past, amid great fluttering of handkerchiefs 
and flags.) 

Farmer moving along with it 
"S'manthie, they'll never stop her." 

After it is gone, the crowd turns and saunters away, no longer notic- 
ing the stage Coach. The Stage Coach driver returns to bis box, sadly 
shaking his bead and driving off bis roach at a snail's pa 






INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 



VI. INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 
THE ANGELS OF THE APOCALYPSE. 

The Chanter 

" 1'ut ii"i your tiiM in princes. Qor m the BOD of man. 

in whom there is oo help. His breath goeth forth, he re- 
turneth to his earth; in that verj day his thoughts perish. 
Happj is he thai hath the God of Jacob for his help." 

Psalm 146 : \ erse 3 

During* this, the Prayers of Stat.- have come in anxiously from 

both ends of the terrace, being represented by mature leaders of men. 

They hurry to the center before the arches, fall on their knees, lift their 
hands and cry out: 

"Thou hast given us the country, 
Thou hast given us the vision. 
Now do the cross-roads thicken. 
Now do the veils deepen. 
Give us light. " 

The Torch comes quickly, climbs the steps and says to them: 

"The Lord will give His angels char-.' concerning t; 

He beckons >" the curtain. It rises: within, dim forms . in a 

row, standing behind the arches, tall and winged but hidden behind veils. 
The Torch hesitates. A voice, unseen behind, cries out: 

" Ephesus ;" 

(Then pauses; then continues, i 

"Remember therefore from whence thou arl fallen, 
and repent ami do the Hist works."- (Rev. 2:5. 

1 )uting this warning the veils over the first Angel fall aside and he 
is disclosed, holding in one hand a fruited branch of the Tree of Life, 
in the other a great candle stick, lighted. The Torch reaches up and 
touches the light, then hesitates again. 

The Voice 
"Smyrna (a pause "Be thou faithful unto death and 
I will give thee a crown of life."' Rev. 2:10 

The veil tails aside and the Becond Angel appears, holding in one 
hand a crown, in the other a lighted candle sink The Torch reaches up 
and touches it. and then he Itates again. 

The Voice 
"Pergamos (a pans. "Repent; or else 1 will come 
unto thee quickly, and will fight." (Rev. 2:16 

The veil falls from the third Angel, Who appears, holding in one 
hand a white stone with a new name on it. in the Other tie' lighted eandle- 
utiek The Torch touches n likewise, and hesitates again. 



INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 



The Voice 
"Thyatira a pause) "Thai which ye have already, 
hold fasl I ill I come." Rev. 2:25. 

The veil falls again from the fourth Angel, who is holding in one 
hand the Morning Star, in the other the great lighted candlestick, which 
the Torch again reaches up and touches, then waits. 

The Voice 
"Sardis (a pause "Be watchful, and strengthen the 
things which remain, thai are ready to die."— (Rev. 3 

The veil falls from the fifth Angel, who is holding an open Book of 
Life, and in the other hand the lighted candlestick. The Torch touches 
it and waits 

The Voice 
"Philadelphia (a pause, "Behold, I come quickly; 
hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy 
crown. " Rev. 3 :11. 

The veil falls again from the sixth Angel, who holds with the left 
arm a pillar, and in the other hand the lighted candle, which tho Torch 
touches. He hesitates again. 

The Voice 
"Laodicea (a pause "I counsel thee to buv of me 
gold."— (Rev. 3:18 

The veil falls again and the last Angel appears, standing beside a 
throne, and holding the lighted candle. The Torch touches it and turns 
to the center, again B topping out facing the Prayers. As he does this 
slowly, the Chanter says: 

"These things saith he thatholdeth the seven stars in 
his righl hand, who walketh in the midst of the sevi 
golden candlesticks." Rev. 2:1. 

The curtain falls behind the Torch and he descends with the Light 
and leads off the Prayers in solemn adoration of it. 



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EPISODE SEVEN— THE COLLEGE 



EPISODE VII. 

THE COLLEGE. 



On the terrace, center front, gathers a group of early New Church- 
men, their wives, sons and daughters. The nun are: 

DAVID GWYNNE, 

THOMAS W. GWYNNE, 
EVAN GWYNNE, 
JOHN H. JAMES, 
DR. W. M. MURDOCH, 
AMOS A KMTIARDS, 
RICHARD S. CANBY, 
REV. J. P. STUART. 
REV. SABIN HOUGH, 
REV. GEORGE FIELD, 
DAVID PRUDEN, 
MII.O (J. WILLIAMS. 

Mr. Milo G. Williams (emphatically) 
The human mind is no longer to be bound down in 
the darkness of pasl ages. In God we dow see the greal 
t'n-si infinite cause of light. 

Rev. George Field 

This can be put into a curriculum. 

Mr. James opens a heavy parchment document and shows it to the 
others. They converse quietlj about it between themsel 

Mr. Williams 
Yon will observe there is no limitation to the value 
of tin- estate which may be acquired. A remarkable 
Charter. *** 

Rev. J. P. Stuart 

The Lord has done it. 

Rev. Sabln Hough then beckons to the boys and girls behind them. 
Tiny mine quietly forward 11. a\s to them: 

"Do 5 <>n desire to enter intellectually into the mysteries 
of Fait! / 

They reply: 

"We do." "We do." 

They then all turn and walk slowh 10 the 1 « > f t and chief door of the 
College. As they go, Mr Williams says to one mar him: 

"Hitherto I have not considered myself at Liberty to 
teach the distinctive principles of the New Church Now 
it is lawful, and the University shall no1 fail if my Bervii 
can Becure its success 

••• These words won- those used |>y Mr. Williams on this oeca>ion. 

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Rev. Sabin Hough (standing in fronl of the little group 

The Secretary of the Board of Trustees will call the 
Roll. 

The above names are called, including Benj. F Barrett, John H. Wil- 
liams, E. Hinman, Wm, E. White, Samuel T. Worcester, and John Murdoch. 
Thej are answered to bj those present. He then lifts his hook of worship 
and says: 

"Suitable to the Laying of the Corner Stone of (Jrbana 
University, we will now sing Selection 208." 
They all immediately begin to sing. 

' ' A rise, shine, for t by lighl is come 

Ami the glory of the Loci is risen upon thee. 

For behold, darkness shall cover the earth 

And gross darkness t he people. 

Hut the Lord shall arise upon thee. 

And His glory shall be seen upon thee. 

And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, 

And Kings to the brightness of th\ rising. 

Lifi up thine eyes round aboul and see. 

All they gather themselves together, they come to thee. 

Th\ sons shall ( le from far. 

And thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. 
Then Thou shall see and Mow together, 

And thine heart shall feaf and lie enlarged, 

Because the abundance of the sea shall be converted 

unto thee, 
'The forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee." 

At the first words. "Arise, shine, for thy li^ht is come," the College 
doors open wide and the Torch appears. He stands there alone, during 
the real of the Episode, holding his torch high. 

Below on the pavement, a little section of brick wall, cornered and 
corniced, is set up. and the Rev. J. P. Stuart, standing in front of it, says: 

"Nunc licet intrare intellectualiter mysteria fidei." 
Gentlemen and friends of a New Cause 

It is tmt necessary to saj much upon this occasion. 
This golden afternoon, the 19th of June, 1851, is but an- 
other scene in the eTeat drama begun on another 19th 
of dune, long ago. 

To enter with the intellect into the secrets of science, 
history and the arts, carrying the torch of thai glory 
that is risen upon us. is the theme of its action. Tin' 

Charter we celebrate today is its stage. That there is 
emotional persuasion in this very mental program is evi- 
denced by the fact that our heart has feared and become 
enlarged; it will also lie evidenced in the future by tin' 

blood and treasure which will he poured without ceasing 
into this ('ause. from the inevitable sacrifice ^\' those who 

see it. To see it is to licliohl. not only the darkness that 
covers the earth, hut the Kings and the Gentiles and the 

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sons from far, who press toward it. following the bright- 
ness of its rising. <>li, may no cloud of our own hesitancy 
ever hide the issue. Lord Jesus, lift up our eyes round 
about, to see!. Amen." 

He steps down to one side. The Rev. Sabin Houuh then steps for 
ward and lifts a large open stone from the corner of the little pulpit's 
wall and presents it with a mallei to Mr Milo G. Williams, and Rev. 
George Field is presented with a trowel, with which is a little plaster. 
Mr. Hough says: 

"Mr. Williams, as Presidenl of tin- Board of Trust - 
of Qrbana University, will you put its foundation stone 
in place .' " 

Mr. Williams Says: 

"In this stone I put, in the name of its founders, a copy 
of the Holy Word. The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly 
Doctrines, The Doctrine of Charity, The Brief Exposition 
of tin- Doctrines of the New Church, Documents concern- 
ing the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg, The 
Origin, Organization and Objects together with the 
Charter of the University, several tracts and papers pub- 
lished by the New Church in America." 

He puts these things into the stone. Rev. George Field then lays the 
plaster. Mr. Williams then puts the stone in place and gives it three 
knocks with the mallet, Upon this, the whole assembly, with the choir, 

breaks into the College Hymn. 

Jesus shall reign where'er the sun, 
I )ot h His successive journey s run, 
His kingdom spread from shore to shore, 
'Till moons shall wax and wane no more 

To Him shall endless prayer be made, 
Ami endless praises crown His head; 
llis name like sweel perfume shall rise 
Wit h i'\ erj morning sacrifice. 

I 'eople a ml realms of e\ erj tongue 
Dwell on His love with sweetesl song, 
A n<l infant \ oices sh.-i II proclaim 
Their earl} blessings on llis name. 

Lei everj creature rise and bring 
Pecul ia r horn »ra to our King ; 
Angels descend with songs again, 
And earl h repeal t he loud A men. 

Daring this hymn the young men and girls turn, and In Bolemn order 

d the steps of the College The Torch turns ami leads the way 

within. After them ale In the founders and their wives, and the door 

is sliut 



INTKRLUDK 



INTERLUDE 
FEAR 

A herald of Pear runs out on to terrace with a long horn, which he 
blows as he runs, pausing to cry out: 

••War! War!" 
He blows again, runs, cries out : 

'War!" 

and is gone. After him comes, alone, the Specter of War. He is a I 
skeleton, carrying in one hand a drawn sword of great size, in the other 
a scythe over his shoulder. At his approach, there are sounds of distant 
drums and far off clarions. 

As he passes, the Chanter cries out 

*' Ati, light, i ''■ light, 

Lesl what before our sighl 
The purpose of an highway hal li 

Fade to a I wist mil;' pat li : 

The morning darken to a gleam 
Ami t nit h again become a dream 

Tin' specter continues Ins inarch very slowly and in an august in. in 
ner. As he is almost gone, the choir breaks into the hymn: 

"Lead, kimll\ light, amid the encircling gloom." 

It sings the iu>t verse all through, the Specter being gone befor< 
first line is sung. Immediately after, on the words "Lead Thou Me On," 
a light is dimly visible behind the curtains of the arches It is the Torch, 
which passes the length of the colonnade during the hymn. \ 
discernable. 



ODE EIGHT— THE CIVIL WAR 



EPISODE VIII. 

THE CIVIL WAR 



Enter at end of terrace officers and nun mobilizing for the Civil 
War. Enter immediately, groups of mothers and Bisters, on the door step 
and at the windows. Every group has its parting scene, with a soldier 
and more. Those in the windows lean down to the young men. There 
are lovers, sons and fathers; there are keepsakes given, and bags filled, 
and through it all the drums are beating louder and louder. 

A silence, as Ichabod Corwin runs in. He says: 

"Fellow citizens; before departure on this terrible er- 
rand, let me read to you the motion <>n which you march." 

The people cry: 

" 1 tear. Hear. Ichabod Corwin !" 

They place a little stand for him, which he mounts and reads: 

"We, the people of the town of Urbana, are unalter- 
ably and forever attached to, and in favor of the supre- 
macy <d' the Constitution, and of all laws passed in pursu- 
ance of it. and of the union of these states; and for the 
maintenance thereof againsl all attacks from all quart* 
we pledge, each of us, our Lives, our fortunes and our 
sa<rcd honor." 

The officers draw their swords. The soldiers salute, the women cheer 
and cry. He continues: 

"I will also read what yon already know. General 

Pyffe i<» Governor Dennison pledges Mad River Valley to 
promptly respond with r>.<in<> men whenever the General 

wants ns. Me wants us. Ate we ready!" 

(He steps down.) 

A great cheer, and the drums again Then a sudden hush. 



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VII. INTERLUDE OF LIGHT 
REVELATION 

While they all stand at one side in groups of departure for war, leav- 
ing the center pavement and the arches clear, Simon Kenton enters at 
opposite end of terrace and proceeds slowly, in meditation, to the center. 
It is evident that he belongs to another period, and does not see or hear 
them. He turns front to the audience and stands, still leaning on his 
cane, a good minute. A choir of men's voices suddenly begins. 

Jesus shall reign where'er the sun 
They stop there, 

Simon Kenton 
(Slowly and with dramatic emphasis.) 

"Who art thou, thai thou shouldsl be afraid of a man 
that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made 
as grass; and forgettesl the Lord, thy Maker, that hath 
stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of 

the earth; and hast feared continually every day I ause 

of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to de 
s1 my." 

He pauses and looks around at the trees and the thickets where he 
had mel the Indians II" continues: 

■"And where is the 'fury of the oppressor?' Isaiah 

12:13. 

Mixed Choir 
"The Kingdom of this world is b >me the Kingdom 

of our Lord and of his ( hrist . " 

Men's Choir 
"Jesus shall reign where'er the sun 
Doth Ilis successive journeys run ; 
Mis kingdom spread from shore to shore, 
'Till moons shall wax and wane no more 

Simon Kenton continues 
"As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the 
field, so he flourisheth. For the wind paaseth over it and 
it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more 

He pauses and looks around on the grass. 

"Bui the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting 
everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness 
unto children's children." Psalm 1" : ! : 15-16-17 

Men's Choir 
"Jesus shall reign where'er the sun." 
Simon Kenton Lifting his head as if in Listening 
"1 hear the voices of a new day singing together, They 

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remind ;i poor old traveller like me thai it is not by chance 
we journey. I have come through these thickets and over 
this green sward, as a boy, Bcft-footed and swift as the 
wind. I thought then it was my own ambition thai led 
me, my curiosity and my daring. Now I can understand 
thai it was a liirlit in my mind, a kind of Torch. The 
voices arc singing thai Jesus shall reign; it may be thai 
it was the Torch <d' His Kingdom which adventurers fol- 
low if they are brave enough. " 

(He pauses, then looks directly at the audience.) 

•"Take an old man's word for it. my friends, it is worth 
following that inward shining light. It may mean an 
Indian <>r two — I was tied to the stake aim>ii<_ r these very 
trees! Bui at the end, it will shine out like a cross made 
of lire and will lead you into greal countries, a greater 
countrj than this— where there is no need of tin- sun, and 
the cations "I' them which are saved shall walk in the 
lighl id' it." Ik' pauses. "When you have been tied 
to a stake by Indians, you know what it is t<' be saved." 
Ik' turns to Li" off. " Yes, it is a great thing to he saved 
— (He pauses again and In walk in the light. Ik' ^ues 
a little farther) I have been young and uow am old." 

(He turns lo go off and pauses.) 

Mixed Choir 
"The Kingdom of this world, is become — " 

Simon Kenton (continues 
"Ye1 have I nut seen the righteous forsaken, nor Ins 
seed begging bread. " I Psalm ■"■7. 

Mixed Choir 
"The Kingdom of our Lord and id' Ids Christ." 

Men's Choir 
' 'Jesus shall reign. 

During these words the curtains before the arches have parted, ana 
reveal, in tin- center, a great cress sliming with light. Against the wail 
en elthei Bide stand the Biz Angels of the Apocalypse, the seventh stand- 
ing in tin center against the cress They all carry their lighted candles 
ai i ■ f"i s 

Simon Kenton goes eft. 






RECESSIONAL 



RECESSIONAL 

The Choir 
"Jesus shall reign." 

During tins, the Torch has run into the colonnade past the Angels, 
touches the Cross with his light and runs down the Btepa The • hoir is 
answered by another great hymn of the advancing soldiers of th< 
War, who immediatel) fall Into line. The Torch runs down to meet them, 
and turning, leads them on their way towards the extreme left, There 
the two heralds of the opening of the Pageant are ahead;, i and 

with every answering phrase of the procession's hymn, they Mow the 
air with the singers until the lirst half of the recession i The 

girls and women have crowded out onto the steps of the school 
and wave goodbye as the army goes past. They run down and fall into 
line. 

The pr< i ession sings: 

"The Son of Man Goes Forth to War." 

At the close Of the words: 

' ' A Kingly < 'rown to « rain," 

the choir and horns continue with the other hymn, which is heard as if 
through the first : 

"His Kingdom s] >reads. 

The Procession Answers 

"Ilis blood-red banner streams before, 

Who follows in His train." 

The Choir 

' ' To Him sha II endless, 

The Procession Answers 
" Who besl can drink his cup of woe 
Triumphant over pain." 

Alter the Civil War soldiers have marched past, the girls run in and 
are gone. 

Then niiet the Spanish War soldiers, and another group of girls and 
women, in dress of the period, run out and wave and try and Bing with 
them as thej march past. 

The Choir and Horns 
"His nam.' like sweel 

The Procession 
''Who patient bears his cross below. 

Choir, Horns and Procession 
"He fol lows in 1 1 is t rain. 
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A roll of drums 

With the second verse, which is sung and marched to in the same 
manner, enter from extreme end of terrace the people of every day, com- 
bining all the groups in the stage coach episode and in the railroad and 
political scene. 

The Choir and Horns 
•■ People and Realms — " 

The Procession 

"The martyr Brsl whose eagle 
( lould pierce bej ond the grave — 

The Choir and Horns 
"And infant voices 

The Procession 
"He saw his Master in the sky 
And called on Him to - 

The Choir and Horns 
' ' Lei every creal ure 

The Procession 

"Like Ilim with pardon on his tongue 
In midst of mortal pain 

The Choir and Horns 
' * Angels descend 

The Procession 
"He prayed for those who <li<l the wrong 

All Together with Horns 
■'Hi' follows in t heir t rain. " 
A long roll of drums as before between the verses. Then 

The Choir and Horns (in 3rd Verse) 

"Jesus shall reign — " 

Enter the soldiers of the local Division of the Army ,.f the Qreat War. 
With them crowd oui onto the steps, girls ami women In the dress of 

the period, waving ami crying farewell. They respond as 'toy march 

*'.\ glorious band, tl hosen few 

< >n whom t he spirit came. 

The Choir and Horns 
* 1 1 is Kingdom spread" 

The Procession 
"Twelve valianl saints then- hop.- they 
Ami mocked t he cross and flame 



RECESSIONAL 



The Choir and Horns 
"To Him shall endless" 

The Procession 

"They mel the tyrant's brandished steel, 
The lion 's gorj mane -" 

The Choir and Horns 
"His name like sweet 

The Procession 
"They bowed their necks the death 1" feel" 

All Together 
" Who follows in t heir i rain. 

With the last verse enter the families of all the periods, men, women 
and children. They are joined by the women who waved farewell to the 
soldiers. 

The Choir and Horns (as in 3d verse) 

" People and realms. " 

The Procession 
' ' A noble army, men and bo; s, 

The matron and the maid." 

The Choir and Horns 

And infant voices' ' 

The Procession 

' ' Around the Savior's 1 hrone rej< 
In robes of lighl arrayed." 

Choir 
' ' I ,et every creal are 

The Procession 

"They climbed the steep ascenl of heaven 
Through peril, toil and pain." 

Choir and Horns 
' " A ngels i lescem I ' ' 

The Procession 
1 M,d. to ns may grace 1"' given." 

All Together 
"I'm follow in their train." 

The fust pari ol n has turned at I and foil' 

the Torch up the lane and nut i 

The men's choir, alone i up tie' refrain: 



RECESSIONAL 



"Jesus shall reign." 

which it sings between each stanza of the hymn of the last part of the 
Recession. There is no pause i n tin- marching time between the first part 
and the coming of the second part, although for a few minutes no one 
is seen on the terrace; the voices of the approaching hymn being heard in 
the distance, answering to the "Jesus shall reign," with 

•• As wit h gladness, men of old 
I >id the guiding star behold 
As with joy they hail M its light, 
Leading onward, beaming brighl ; 
So, mosl gracious Lord, may we 
Evermore be led to Thee. 

Enter the Prayers of the Martyrs. They run ahead of the group in 
the advancing procession composed of the .Missions, and rush up to 
the Cross. Each Prayer carries a torch and, as the first one touches the 
Cross, the other torches flame. They take a position like a long ray of 
light reaching out from the Cross onto the pavement below the Angels. 
Alter ilif Missions come The First Pioneers, preceded by the Prayers of 
the Mothers, who run like - with their torches and stand, 

another ray of light, beckoning on the Pioneers, who sing the e 

" A.s wit li joyous steps t hey sped 
To i lie I ii r . i iii Saviour's bed ; 
There to bend ami kneel before 

whom heaven ami earth adore ; 
So may we with willing feel 
Ever seek i he mere} -sent . '" 

Alter them come the signers of the Port Gower Resolutions, tie' 
Staff of Arthur St. Clair. The Flag ami the Ordinance of 1TS7. carried by 
the Pioneers. They a 'led by the Prayers oi Soldiers, who, like- 

wise run ahead and up to the Cross, funning a ray of light which leads 
on the group, with the third \' 

"As t hey offered gifts most rare 
At i hat cradle rude ami bare ; 
So may we with holy joy, 
Pure ami free from sin r s alloy. 
All our cost liesl i reasures bring, 
Lord ! to Tl , our heavenly King. " 

Enter the Children' Prayers, running ahead of the first school teach 
ers, the circuit Court, the Farmers and Maidens ami Johnny Appleseed. 
They also run to tie- Cross and carrj out their light in the way they stand. 
with the fourth v 

' I lo|\ Jesus ! e\ ery day 
Keep us in t he narrow way ; 
And, \\ hen earl hly t hinga are | 
Bring our ransomed souls at lasl 

Where the\ need no star to guide, 
Where no eloiids Th\ glon hide." 



RECESSIONAL 



Enter the Greenville treaty, carried t>> Chiefs and followed by ;tll 
the Chiefs. These are preceded by the Prayers of Youth, who run up and 
form their ray of light from the Cross, with the fifth verse: 

"In i lie heavenly counl r\ brighl , 
Need i hey no created lighl ; 
Thou Ms Light, its Joy, ii s < !rown, 
Thou its Sun which goes nol down, 
There forever may \\ e sing, 
I [allelujahs to our K ing. " 

Enter the Prayers of Suit'', who form the last raj of light, and all 
together remain Binging while the procession vanishes. 

The ulazing Cross, with its Angels and its rays of light and the choir 
above, alone remain. 

The Chanter 

Have the} departed? Have the^ gone from sight, 
The guiding vision and the travelling light? 
Is there no longer in our work and care 
A punning Torch to answer every prayer 

1 ro up into t he town and far awaj 

Where t his sun rises on anol her day, 

Take up the labor I hat our fal hers planned, 

See thai its last fulfillment is as grand 

As faithful i" iis purpose as when thej 

Called for the Lighl of lights upon their way. 

And in your ueed, as they did, pause and l<><>k — 

A spirit brighl will lead you to the Book, 

Will open to your ej es t he vision true, 

Will touch its fire and bring it down to you. 

Behold, the vistas of the darkening green 
Where in a passionate life jiisl now were seen 
Our treasured heroes where we heard them say 
The \\ ords thai arc the folk lore of our day ! 
How soon the silence! They have gone ahead 
Following the Torch; bo be you likewise led. 

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